Delicious Death

The Hollow
For Larry and DanaeWith apologies for using their swimming pool as the scene of a murder

UK

Collins, London, Nov. 1946

US

Dodd Mead, New York, 1946

Collier's Weekly, May.4-25 1946 as 'The Outraged Heart'

a.k.a. "Murder after Hours"

Plot

Lucy Angkatell invites Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: 'Henrietta'. In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool"
Poirot's enquiries reveal a complex web of romantic attachments. It seems everyone in the drama is a suspect - and each a victim of love.

The Hollow (play)

Full Length Play / Drama(Mystery/Thriller) / More than 120 minutes
dramatised by Agatha Christie
Presented by Peter Saunders at the Fortune Theatre, London, on 7th June 1951, with the following cast of characters: (in the order of their appearance)

Henrietta Angkatell

Beryl Baxter

Sir Henry Angkatell, KCB

George Thorpe

Lady Angkatell

Jeanne de Casalis

Midge Harvey

Jessica Spencer

Gudgeon

A.J.Brown

Edward Angkatell

Colin Douglas

Doris

Patricia Jones

Gerda Cristow

Foan Newell

John Cristow, MD, FRCP

Ernest Clark

Veronica Craye

Dianna Foster

Inspector Colquhoun, CID

Martin Wyldeck

Detective Sergeant Penny

Shaw Taylor

The play directed by Hubert Gregg
The play was subsequently transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre